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Patriot Day: 24 Years Later We Carry the Fight for Freedom

President's Podcast with Senator Jane Timken
By John Fortney
September 11, 2025
On The Record
 
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September 11, 2001.

2,977 patriots died that day.

They died at the hands of terrorists who hated The United States of America.

The next day, as the rescue teams searched for survivors through the rubble of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, there was a resurrection across the nation.

Old Glory flew on homes in every neighborhood across the country.

We stood up for our country. We were proud to be Americans.

Today, there are those who hate America. The elitist, entitled, and always offended who want to censor your First Amendment rights, and they are willing to kill over anything they define as hate speech.

There is a clear difference between what is true, and what is hateful.

Here are some examples.

Men can’t have babies.

Men don’t belong in women’s sports.

Men don’t belong in women’s locker rooms.

We protect children in Ohio.

This is not hateful. It is truthful.

Yet, Charlie Kirk was assassinated for taking those very positions.

The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, husband, and father of two young children was murdered in a political assassination at his event at Utah Valley University.

All because he had the courage to engage with those who have been indoctrinated by the radical left. He bravely waded into the sea of indoctrinated minds on college campuses across the country. And he did so with kindness, grace, and class. Watch this interaction with an angry young man, who couldn’t articulate why he was filled with hate, because he was simply brainwashed by the bandwagon of today’s progressive left.

This is why left hated Charlie Kirk. He wasn’t afraid to meet the challenge of polite political debate, and he was killed for it. Fear not my friends, for as today’s left clings to its radical issues it is simply circling the drain of its self-inflicted demise.

Friday, law enforcement thankfully made an arrest.

America has awakened to secure its borders, deport drug traffickers, protect our cities from violent criminals who time and again were released by woke judges and bad policy from big cities led by Democrats. 

The murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail system was captured on video for the world to see. Her killer had been jailed and released 14 times before he slit her throat from behind, then slinked away unchallenged as she bled to death alone.

Yet, not a word from the legacy media for days. Then suddenly when social media forced coverage, the talking heads, and New York Times changed the narrative into conservatives politicizing the murderer because he happened to be black. Blame the victim. That’s the playbook of today’s radical left. Accuse those who stand for truth of being fascists and racists when that’s exactly what the left really is.

Safe spaces on college campuses are really segregated spaces that are only open to those who fly the correct flag. Isn’t that the exact thing the civil rights leaders of the 50’s and 60’s fought so hard to end? Segregated lunch counters, segregated restrooms, segregated seating on the bus. Yet today calling it out for what it is makes you a target. They want to silence free speech, especially on campus, because that is the place where radical Constitution loathing leftists can brainwash the future of America.

This week Senator Jane Timken joins the President's Podcast. The former RNC Committeewoman and Ohio Republican Party Chair talks about Patriot Day, the impact Charlie Kirk made, and why the Trump Administration is making America Great and Safe Again.

It takes courage to make a stand against today's twisted cancel culture death threats.

Stand firm Ohio.

In the words of Todd Beamer and the patriots on board Flight 93, "Let's Roll."